13-hour Arena match leaves Warlock the victor
by Michael Gray 
Aug 22nd 2008 at 6:00PM
In the Arena, long matches sometimes happen. The longest I've ever been involved with left me watching my Holy Paladin partner and a Resto Druid chase each other around the Blade's Edge bridge for a half hour. And I thought 30 minutes was pretty long-in-the-tooth for an Arena match. It turns out, that's nothing.
Richard tipped us off to a show-down that ran for 13 hours and 30 minutes. It seems like a long time, but when you check out the discussion thread -- it's revealed that the Warlock and the Druid weren't really fighting no-holds-barred for the entire time. The druid was skilled enough at his LOS and heals that Bandiago, the warlock, couldn't do enough damage to kill him. In return, the resto druid didn't have the DPS to burn down the Siphon-Life/Soul-Link warlock.
The two players started exchanging messages during the match. Bandiago would apparantly get up to go make brownies and post on the official forums. Whenever the druid would try and kill him, the warlock-chef would come back long enough to get in the fight. It eventually wound down, according to Bandiago, when he was able to get a Drain Life to keep channelling through a pillar. At 13.5 hours, Bandiago pulled off a win.
I guess we should offer congratulations, but I don't know. 13 hours is a long time. Many of us have had shorter love affairs. It seems like a long time to chase a bear around an Arena, to me.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, Forums, Arena
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
mallet Aug 22nd 2008 6:08PM
Anyone spending that amount of time in something like needs to get outside and get some fresh air, I thought 4 hours of playing was long granted i have played much longer but i was seeing different things and going different places. 13.5 is nutzo
Wade Aug 22nd 2008 7:43PM
Gratz on trying to insult someone for playing a game you play.
Faar Aug 22nd 2008 10:01PM
What's it to you how other people choose to spend their time? If you don't want to sit on your behind in the arena for 13 hours then YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
Maybe it was raining outside all day. Maybe the warlock had come down with a summer cold and couldn't go outside. Sheesh, don't be such a self-righteous git, deciding how other people should live their lives...
What's so funny is this warlock dude readily admits he was watching movies and whatnot most of the time and returning only when he heard his char taking damage... Well guess what... If the druid had only specced insect swarm he would have WON. IS doesn't really make any sound at all while it ticks. Match would have been over a few minutes after the lock left keyboard to make brownies. :P
TotalBiscuit Aug 22nd 2008 10:56PM
Don't be stupid. Adults get to choose what they want to do. One day inside isn't going to kill you. Geez, if I performed as many wonderful and varied things as you I'd never get anything done.
Aerimos Aug 23rd 2008 7:28AM
How do you kill.....that which has no life?
bos Aug 25th 2008 3:29AM
Just look at the killing blows stats. if the lock killed the drood, then the pally killed the warrior ,so the drood killed the pally? lol! how?
Zep Aug 22nd 2008 6:12PM
I've had matches like that. It's ridiculous, you wonder if you should just forfeit, but you don't want to lose valuable points (double the loss since otherwise you'd win valuable points).
The part about brownies is pretty funny :D
rhys Aug 22nd 2008 6:31PM
thats quite sad
Frank Smith Aug 22nd 2008 6:26PM
the part about brownies sounds fake :p
lol Aug 22nd 2008 6:32PM
admitedly I play wow a lot and thought that I had no life.
after reading this, I think otherwise.
jay Aug 22nd 2008 6:38PM
There has to be something seriously wrong with someone who spend 13 hours chasing 16 points - fucking crazy.
Balthamae Aug 22nd 2008 8:40PM
Lol is all i say. This reminds me of the old AV where i was in a 15 hour AV match, from start to finish, it was pretty packed whit emotions.
epsilon343 Aug 22nd 2008 6:43PM
In the time it took him to finally win they could've lost and made up the points. Why do these people think this is even *remotely* the smart thing to do?
Smurk Aug 22nd 2008 7:40PM
These are probably the same people whose first response to ever forum thread is "LOL NICE RATINGS," so, you know, this is pretty importatnt to them.
After something like this is over, though, and you've lol'd to your guild over vent about it, there has to be a moment of searing remorse as the sink full of Pillsbury-soiled baking trays catches your eye on the way to the can.
Wade Aug 22nd 2008 7:47PM
Ummm Id say they kept playing because it was pretty fun/ny. Not everything in this game has to be super serious.
peter Aug 22nd 2008 6:54PM
And I thought I spent a lot of time on WOW after those weekly 6 hour raid evenings.
But i feel better now. Less... geeky.
VoLiTioN Aug 22nd 2008 7:02PM
... Why didn't the lock just aggressively drain the druid while he was in caster/travel form, while keeping his pet on the druid? It'd take time, but the pet would prevent the Druid from getting out of combat to drink. He'd run out of mana.... Eventually.
I mean SL/SL Lock vs. Resto Druid would be a long and tedious fight, but 13.5 hours?
Kiukiu Aug 22nd 2008 7:37PM
I complained about having to do 700k damage to kill a Priest one time on my lock...but this poor bastard had to do over 3 million. Insanity.
I really think this guy deserves an Achievement named after him.
jay Aug 22nd 2008 8:05PM
Yeah, they should call it - The No Life Achievement - or the - Who Needs A Life, When You Have Arena -.
Smurk Aug 22nd 2008 7:41PM
re: typos, yes I have started drinking.